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Hey there,

We're in the process of upgrading the AWS infrastructure that we use to host CiviCRM sites and are happy to share the results (seems like 'open sourcing' server configuration would be good for everyone involved). 

There are a few different resources around.  Sometimes I think there is surprisingly little, or maybe I just haven't found it all yet.  I've started a collection below.

* http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=16837.0
* http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Scaling+and+Performance

There's also various places like https://wiki.koumbit.net/DebianPuppetDeployment which (although I am yet to fully explore, I am sure) are full of good ideas.

I thought it might be worthwhile trying to get more systematic about how we describe good server configs and was talking to bgm about this at the albany code sprint.  there are clever ways (puppet, etc.) and simple ways (civicrm wiki) to record all this stuff.  Might be that the simple is best to start.

Of course there are as many different perfect server configs as there are clients, but never the less (as bgm suggested) we could look at describing some archetypal set ups.

Maybe a config that works for ubuntu LTS on a machine of about the size of http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ would be a good start?

Would be great to hear other about other already existing resources and people's thoughts on how we could systematise them.

Cheers,
Michael